Table 1

Summary of Some Studies on Land Use Change in China

Study	Subject Area	Study Region	Study Period	Land Use Data Type	Some Findings
Heilig 1997	Multiple land use changes	China	1985-1995	Inventory data published by the China administration	Document five anthropogenic drivers of land use change, including population growth, urbanization, industrialization, changes in lifestyles and consumption, and shifts in political and economic arrangements and institutions.
Deng et al. 2002	Multiple land use changes	Interlock area of farming and pasturing in northern China	1990-2000	Remotely sensed data from TMZETM images	Geophysical conditions have great impact on grassland conversions.
Liu et al. 2003	Multiple land use changes	China	1995-2000	Remotely sensed data from TMZETM images	Document the pattern and regional differentiation of land use change.
Liu et al. 2010	Multiple land use changes	China	2000-2005	Remotely sensed data from TMZETM images	Document the pattern and regional differentiation of land use change.
Ostwald and Chen 2006	Multiple land use changes	Ansai county, Shaanxi province, China	2000-2002	Remotely sensed data from MODIS/ASTER images	Policy and economics drive land use change directly; climate has some impact on regional scale vegetation pattern.
Seto and Kaufmann 2003	Urban land expansion	Pearl River Delta, Guangdong province, China	1988-1996	Remotely sensed data from TMZETM images	Drivers of agricultural land conversion to urban use include the ratio of agricultural land productivity to industrial land productivity, forest direct investment, agricultural labor productivity, and wages.
Deng et al. 2008	Urban land expansion	China	1988-2000	Remotely sensed data from TMZETM images	Economic (GDP) growth drives urban land expansion.
Lichtenberg and Ding 2009	Urban land expansion	10 coastal provinces, China	1996-2004	Inventory data published by the China administration	Urban area changes increased with urban land value and budgetary government revenues and decreased with agricultural land value.
Deng et al. 2010	Forestland change	Northeast China	1988-2005	Remotely sensed data from TMZETM images	Forest area changes increased with gross forestry output, forest protection projects, and agricultural population proportion and decreased with forestry production and population density.
Deng et al. 2011	Deforestation	Jiangxi Province, China	1995-2000	Remotely sensed data from TMZETM images	Roads have no impact on the level of forests and the rate of deforestation.

Note: MODIS/ASTER, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer/Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer; TM/ETM, Thematic Mapper/Enhanced Thematic Mapper.